As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

HOUSTON — A study of adolescents has revealed significant interactions between sleep duration, social media use, and brain activity across frontolimbic regions crucial for executive control and reward ...

America’s young people face a mental health crisis, and adults constantly debate how much to blame phones and social media. A new round of conversation has been spurred by Jonathan Haidt’s book “The ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

If you remember your pre-teen and teenage years, you can probably recall the intense feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, mood swings, and the desperate need for your peer's approval. More than any ...

New research published in the Journal of Affective Disorders provides evidence that the gut microbiome may play a functional ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...

The social side of work is in short supply these days. Post-pandemic, many organizations have turned to some form of a hybrid approach: employees splitting their time between remote work and commuting ...

Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.